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Papua New Guinea needs a giant wakeup call according to a local academic.
Andrew Anton Mako said the country's systemic dysfunction was plain to see in the rioting and looting throughout the country's main cities two weeks ago.
Mr Mako, who is with the Australian National University's Development Policy Centre, said the government has failed to address the underlying causes of violence for years.
He spoke with RNZ Pacific's Don Wiseman firstly about how the outbreak of violence would have been avoided if systems had worked like they should.
